After spending a short period as an assistant he was promoted to head coach after Liaoning's poor start to the 2005 Chinese Super League season.

Liu Zhenli started his professional football career at the beginning of the 2004 Chinese Super League season after graduating from the youth team.

The following season Cai Chuchuan would be part of the squad that eventually ended the Chinese Super League 2007 season finishing eleventh.

Fan Qunxiao would start his professional football career with top tier club Shanghai United in the 2006 Chinese Super League season.

Team moved to Guizhou for the 2012 Chinese Super League season.

However, Deng did not play during the 2012 Chinese Super League season, missing out after doctors found fractured bone fragments in his leg.

By the 2006 Chinese Super League season he would move to Shanghai United F.C. and help them come 7th within the league.

Zhaojun would sit in the reserves until Guangzhou F.C. took him on loan during the 2009 Chinese Super League season.

He moved back to China and signed a contract with Tianjin Teda before the start of the 2010 Chinese Super League season.

Despite severe financial problems leaving players unpaid for months, Shenzhen Jianlibao sensationally won the first ever Chinese Super League season.